Name-holder.



H. B. COOK.

NAME HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 27, 1911.

1,039,902, Patented Oct. 1, 1912.

COLUMBIA PLANOGRAPH c0.. WASHINGTON. 0, c.

HUGH BURFORD COOK, OF BRUNSWICK, GEORGIA.

NAME-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Oct. 1,1912.

Application filed September 27, 1911; Serial No. 651,595.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HUGH B. COOK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brunswick, in the county of Glynn and State of Georgia, have invented a new and useful Name-Holder, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to name holders for suit cases, satchels and the like and its principal object is to provide a device of this character so arranged that the card bearing the name to be used can only be placed in or removed from position by first opening the case or satchel to which the holder is connected.

A further object is to provide a name holder having no exterior metal parts and which, therefore, will not corrode or be otherwise afiected to an undesirable extent by moisture.

With the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope of what is claimed, without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawings the preferred form of the invention has been shown.

In said drawings :Figure 1 is a perspective view of a suit case having the present improvements applied thereto. Fig. 2 is an enlarged inner elevation of the name holder.

. Fig. 3 is a section through the parts shown in Fig. 2.

Referring to the figures by characters of reference 1 designates a receptacle, in the present instance a suit case, having an opening 2 cut in one end thereof. The name holder constituting the present invention is adapted to be secured inside the receptacle and across the opening and includes a face strip 3 preferably of the same kind of material as that of which the case 1 is formed, the edge portions of this face strip being sewed or otherwise secured to the receptacle 1 close to the edges of the opening 2. The strip 3 has an opening 4: exposed within the opening 2 and a backing strip 5 of leather or other suitable material is sewed along three edges to the back face of the strip 3 so as to form a pocket directly back of the opening4: for the reception of a name card 6 and a transparent protecting strip 7 formed of celluloid or other suitablematerial. The card 6 and the protecting strip 7 both extend across the opening 4 so as to thus conceal the backing strip 5 when the holder is viewed through the opening 2. A tab 8 is secured to the free edge portion of the backing strip 5 and carries one member 9 of a snap fastener, the other member 10 of said fastener being carried by a tab 11 which is secured to the inner face of the receptacle 1 at a point adjacent opening 2.

It will be apparent that, when it is desired to place the card 6 in or to remove the same from the holder, it is first necessary toopen the case 1 so that access may be had to the tabs 8 and 11. Tab 8 is then pulled so as to disengage its fastener 9 from the fastener 10. Card 6 can then be placed in or removed from the pocket formed between the protecting strip 7 and the backing strip 5 after which the two tabs 8 and 11 can be secured together and the case 1 closed.

Attention is directed to the fact that there are no metal parts outside of the case and forming a part of the holder and, therefore, discoloration resulting from the use thereof is avoided. Furthermore as the card can only be changed by first opening the case or receptacle 1, it will be apparent that surreptitious changing of the card will thus be prevented.

What is claimed is The combination with a wall of a receptacle, said wall having an opening therein, of a face strip secured along its edge portions to the inner surface of the wall and across the opening in said wall, there being an aperture in the face strip and all portions of which are exposed within the opening in the wall, a backing strip secured along three sides to the face strip and forming a card receiving pocket, a transparent protecting strip seated within the pocket and closing the aperture in theface strip, a tab secured upon the inner face of the Wall of the receptacle and at a point re- In testimony that I claim the foregoing moved from the opening in said Wall, a tab as my own, I have hereto aifixed my signasecured to the free edge portion of the backture in the presence of two Witnesses. ing strip, and cooperating means upon the HUGH BURFORD COOK.

5 tabs for detachably connecting said tabs and Witnesses:

holding the pocket closed and preventing R. A. EVERETT, unseating of the card and transparent strip. R. B. SOUTHARD,

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